Archive for March, 2016

Some fourteen hundred years before the birth of Christ, a young Egyptian prince embarked on a hunting expedition on the west bank of the river Nile. Stopping to rest from his exertions, he soon fell asleep in the shadow of a giant stone head that was buried up to its neck in sand. While he […]

The New Scientific Messiah Thomas Kuhn has pointed out that “almost all the men who achieve these fundamental inventions of a new paradigm have been either very young or very new to the field whose paradigm they change.” 1 Isaac Newton was in his early twenties when he first expounded his revolutionary theories at Cambridge. […]